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US-Canada border

Members of the Girl Guides of Canada. Girl Guides of Canada via Flickr
Culture
Canadian schools and Girl Guides are nixing their trips to the US
Afghan journalist Habib Zahori made a cold trek across the US-Canada border on foot and on bicycle. "I remember thinking, wishing, 'Oh God, please, please send someone to arrest me!’ "
Conflict
Habib Zahori was scared to seek asylum in the US. So he pushed a rickety bicycle through snow to get to Canada.